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The Dig: AI Hype Machine w/ Meredith Whittaker, Ed Ongweso, and Sarah West

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The Importance of Thinking About Things in the Laboratory

The gig economy is an artificially constructed platform that uses algorithms to try to assign work in ways that's exploitative but also keeps a huge surplus of workers, right? So the algorithm and the digital sheen are artificial obscure, really insidious organizations. All of this is largely all of this and that we have largely are done for purposes and ends and values that we, you know, would have nothing that we want to have nothing to do with.

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